Preserving Cancelled & Unreleased Video Game History Since 1999
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Our next update is a special recovery of Tork for GameBoy Advance, approximately 60-70% complete (with no sound) and lots of levels. An impressive conversion, with Nebulus style and other 3D levels throughout – sadly never to see completion. Enjoy!
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2020/12/tork/ Continue reading
How can you possibly squeeze a 32-bit PlayStation CD ROM game into a small Game Boy Color Cartridge? Well, HotGen would attempt to do just that with a conversion of Resident Evil in mid-1999 and to make it as close as possible with similar 3D perspectives using scaled sprites.
There were delays and a lot of struggles to cram everything in. There were of course a number of restrictions and tweaks made along the way, but HotGen had a pretty decent stab at it and had a title which was certainly pushing the 8-bit hardware. Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.42: Then finally in November, a Polish edition of the Games That Weren’t book (with extra content) was released. Never in a million years did we imagine seeing a translated edition:
https://gknb.pl
And that is it for our highlights of December 2024 to November 2025. We’ll be back tomorrow with the start of our new Christmas updates for this year, before having a nice long break with family. A list of our highlights so far can be found below. Take care and we hope you enjoy what’s coming up!
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/tag/xmas2025/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.41: In November, we uncovered a surprise unknown 1991 #NES Super Kick Off conversion. Built off the original Kick Off code, it features updated titles + beginnings of an overhaul never finished. Check out the prototype for yourself here:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/11/super-kick-off/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.40: In October, and thanks to LiqMatrix’s incredible preservation work (with support from @museumofplay and @wcnews), this very obscure 90s #PC gaming device was finally archived:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/the-katt-games-master-keyboard-archive/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.39: In October, we had been busy working on recovering a lost 1989 EA game – not for PC Engine, but for the Amiga. Path of the Little Dragon is an early proto beat-’em-up done PC Engine style, and we shared several builds here:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/path-of-the-little-dragon/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.38: A nice September surprise was when Mark Kirkby (Code Monkeys) got in touch to share his impressive 1992 #GameBoy road engine prototype that later evolved into Road Rash. Now play the demo and check out the complete source code too!
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/09/game-boy-road-engine/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.37: In September, and after 42 years, Imagic’s Moonsweeper for #VIC20 was finally preserved. Painstakingly restored by Ken Van Mersbergen (+ help from Simon Rowe & Torsten Kracke), Ken kindly allowed release via Games That Werent:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/09/imagics-moonsweeper-commodore-vic-20-saved-after-42-years/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.36: September saw a huge #Commodore64 surprise with GTW adding the sadly cancelled playable prototype of the Indiana Jones 3 adventure. An unofficial conversion of the great Lucasfilm Games title with bags of promise, but wasn’t to be.
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-adventure/ Continue reading
GTW Highlight No.35: In August, we released a lost and unreleased #PC build of X’Treme Roller by Neko. The game was released on #PS1, and was also cancelled for the #N64 too. We take a look at this very early build, which you too can now play:
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/08/xtreme-roller/ Continue reading
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